Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

- Alanis Morissette

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

- Anthony Hopkins

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

- Anne Lamott

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

- Angelina Jolie

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

- Andy Serkis

I'm such a kid at heart.

- Amy Winehouse

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

- Amy Tan

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

- Allen Iverson

When I entered the pros, I was a young kid in the major leagues. I was 18 years old, right out of high school. I thought I knew everything, and I clearly didn't.

- Alex Rodriguez

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.

- Aaron Rodgers

When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected.

- Alan Sugar

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

- Alan King

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

- Alan King

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

- Alan Alda

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

- Al Yankovic

As a kid who grew up chubby, I just marveled at the fact that I could be thin.

- Al Sharpton

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

- Adam Sandler

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

- Adam Sandler

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

- Adam Carolla